Efficient threshold for volumetric segmentation

Autor: Daniel Costin Ebanca, Marius Brezovan, Liana Stanescu, Dumitru Dan Burdescu, Cosmin Stoica Spahiu
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: ICDIP
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.2197443
Popis: Image segmentation plays a crucial role in effective understanding of digital images. However, the research on the existence of general purpose segmentation algorithm that suits for variety of applications is still very much active. Among the many approaches in performing image segmentation, graph based approach is gaining popularity primarily due to its ability in reflecting global image properties. Volumetric image segmentation can simply result an image partition composed by relevant regions, but the most fundamental challenge in segmentation algorithm is to precisely define the volumetric extent of some object, which may be represented by the union of multiple regions. The aim in this paper is to present a new method to detect visual objects from color volumetric images and efficient threshold. We present a unified framework for volumetric image segmentation and contour extraction that uses a virtual tree-hexagonal structure defined on the set of the image voxels. The advantage of using a virtual tree-hexagonal network superposed over the initial image voxels is that it reduces the execution time and the memory space used, without losing the initial resolution of the image.
Databáze: OpenAIRE